Application and Research of Topic Maps in Relational Database
Wu Jie · Computer Technology and Development · 2006
Topic maps are a new ISO standard for describing knowledge structures and associating them with information resources.As a data model of describing and exchanging information,they provide a way of navigating and organizing semantic data.In the paper,describe the related concept of topic maps at first.Then a method of how to extend relational database using topic maps is suggested.At last,using XTM educe database that is the description language of topic maps in order to provide the new idea for exchanging data in multi-database.